The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-08

INC lunu VI otcdcy Hupitb, Whcto tho
people are supposed to have out-pur-
itanized the Puritans themrclves. On
Lady day, March rs, 1888, that being
the feast of the Annunciativa of the
Blessed Virgin Mary, ten Connecticut
clergymen chose Samuel Seabury to be
consecrated bishop. On reaching En-
gland DR.. Seabury found the English
dioceses averse to cooperating with
him, and eventually they refused to
consecrate him. Their objections might
have been based upon the principles
held by DR.. Seabury, or they might
have been due to political consdera-
tons. Finally DR.. Seabury, after corre-
spondence with the sufragans of Scot
land. went to Edinburgh, and was
there consecrated on the twelty-second
Sunday after Trinity-Nov IA, 1884.
Although attempts were made for sew
eral years following to induce the con-
vention of the Protestant Episcopal
church IN America to declare his con-
secraton invalid. the effort was never
successful, and in the first convention,
in 1889, it was "Resolved, unanimously
that il is the opinion of this conven-
ton that the conservation of Rev. DIR.
Seabury is valid" Thus while the
anniversary celebrated in England to-
day is great one for the diocese of
New York, its Importance to the whole
church in America is less than that of
Nov. IA, 1884, which was centennial
interesting to all the dioceses,
After Bishop Seabury returned to
this country he issued a tract-now
most notwithstanding the ritual of the
Scottish church for use in the church in
Connecticut. This ritual was not ac-
cepted outside of Bishop Seabury's d.
Geese, and q committee, at the head of
which was Rev. DIR. William White,
began preparing a new liturgy. There
was considerable friction over the task,
both in committee and out of it, and
progress was slow.
Meanwhile the movement in favor of
securing three bishops for dioceses in
America continued to gather strength.
At the convention which met in Will
mington. Del, Oct 10, 1856, New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware,
and South Carolina were represented
by both lay and clerical delegates
eleven of the former and nine of the lat
ter-while Maryland had but one repre-
sentative. clerical delegate. After
several ballots for candidates for bish-
ops DR.. Samuel Provost was chosen
for the diocese of New York, DR.. Will
liam White for Pennsylvania, and DR..
Griffith for Virginia. Owing to the
jealousy and annoying persecution from
church people in his own diocese, DIR.
Griffith declined to accept the bishopric,
and Dr. Provost and DR.. White went
to England alone. They were received
with great cordiality by the English
bishops. and the laying on of hands
took place Septuagesima, Feb 4, 1884,
in the chapel at Lambeth. The arch
bishop of Canterbury, DIR. John Moore,
was the consecrator; the archbishop of
York, DR.. William Markham the pre-
senter and the bishop of Bath and
Wells DIR. Charles Moss, and the bishop
of Peterborough, DIR. John Hinchelile,
united in the laying on of hands. The
consecartion sermon was preached by
Rev. DR.. Drake, the text being l. Corin-
thians xiv, 40: Let all things be done
decently and in order" The congre-
CATION was very small, and the interest
in the event-even in church circles
was trilling.
The ceremony in Lcndon today takes
its Importance, of course, from the
growth of the little mustard seed plan t.
ed that day. While the English church
authorities cling tenaciously to the pres
tige and pecunary aid attaching to an
established" church, they have hear
ty appreciation of and regard for their
healthy and self-supporting oiIshoot in
America, which asks neither state aid
nor interference. 1t is child alre ady
somewhat larger than its mother.